Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Constant change is here to stay.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.